[1 year 10 months] Chatterbox

Lara's favorite words are all to do with food - apple, pear, raisin, kiwi fruit, grapes, berry(strawberry), mato(tomato), ice cream, pizza, bread, milk. She especially likes to recite all the fruit she knows before going to sleep. Lara initiates "hellos" to people in the shops. Last week, she called out "hellos" and "grapes" again and again in a fruit shop that the old man works there ended up cutting a small bunch of grapes for her.


Lara also likes to dance and sing along to the songs in Wiggles. She knows most of the Wiggles' names. Wiggles is definitely her favorite now, surpassing "in the night garden". "Tellitubbies" is popular too. Lara tends to move closer and closer to the TV set if I don’t' watch her.

It's not always easy to understand what Lara says. You need a little imagination (sometimes a lot) and patience. Most days she is an angel, so easy and fun to be with. Other times she could be very difficult. The tantrums usually come without warnings but are mostly gone quite quickly too.


(Lara likes to pretend to fall over)

Others:
* Lara likes sushi rolls with avocado fillings or California rolls, not so keen on tuna ones.
* We went to yum char and Lara had a piece of prawn for the first time. She started having funny rashes that day. We are not sure at this stage if this is prawn related.
*We saw a couple of houses one weekend. The first 2 houses had swimming pools. Lara liked to point at them and repeated "swimming pool". Lara was looking around in the backyard of the third house (no pools) for some time. Then she turned to her Daddy and held her hands out and said "No swimming pool?"
* Lara enjoyed being in a peddling pool with Milo. Those blow-up peddling pool seems to be a great idea.
* This is how Lara counts to ten: "two... four ... six... seben...ten!".
* Lara like to run around naked before bath.
* Last weekend we were discussing where to go in the car. Husband said "ok turn right at the next traffic light". And we heard Lara said "turn left" from the back seat.
* Lara asks me which daycare we are going in the car -"Hello Jenny? Hello Mari?"? If I said "oh we are going to see Jenny today, hello Jenny", Lara would repeat "Hello Jenny, bye-bye Mari".
* Lara wants to pick flowers before getting into the car every morning. It's taking me longer to get her out of the door in the morning.
* Seemed to sleep for 3 hours frequently in daycares. They have to wake her up often.